Monday Ménage: That Special Breed
Russell. Thompson. Pevernagie. The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Laughing At Politicians
Barry. Rogers. Truman. Bierce. The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth…
Monday Ménage: Brainless Swine. Visionary Hysteria. Profit In The Republic.
Thompson. Pevernagie. Mencken. The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup…
Monday Ménage: Citizens, Prejudices, and The Imbecile
Naskar. Heinlein. Brecht. If a criminal becomes a politician, it's the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing…
Monday Ménage: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Animals, Comedians, Politicians
Butler. Rogers. Carlin. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler. Everything is changing. People are taking their…
Monday Ménage: Edition Cherish Freedom, Submissive People, Moving Offshore
Albright. Berry. Schweizer. We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think…
Monday Ménage: Edition Kissing, Easily Aroused, and All Puffed Up
Truman. Russell. Nietzsche. The President has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does…
Monday Ménage: Edition Conservatives, Resentment, Erroneous Assumptions
Carlin. Russell. Postman. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Givers and Takers
Dhliwayo. Xinindlu. Malloy. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and Demonic People
Murat ildan. Vanderbuilt. Muscio. One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians Pundits And Arrogance
Wylie. de Maupassant. Trotsky. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of…
Left Where? Why?
Rising from the tradgedy that is America, we see today few willing to find solutions but many quite willing to find blame. Much of the blame…
Monday Ménage
Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos. Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market,…
Monday Ménage
Albert Einstein. George Orwell. Will Rogers. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be…
Illumination
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
Rotten behavior, like rot in an apple’s core, spreads outward, devouring every piece of innocence, positive creativity, and kindness in its path.From “Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways Of Harmony For Many Moons”. Jamie Sams. Jamie is half American Indian, half French; with ancestors from the Southern Mohawk, & Seneca, Cherokee & Choctaw Nations.
Simple Reminder
Issues…
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
1176 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police In The Past Year.
Black Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans. Data Here:
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid . . .
‘The problem with the American church today is no one wants to kill its pastors anymore. No one wants to arrest its pastors anymore. And there’s a lot of truth to that.’ Steve Deace, BlazeTV host. ‘nough said.
“It’s a very detailed indictment, and it is very, very damning. This idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous…He’s not a victim here. He was totally wrong. I do think that if even half of it is true, then he’s toast.” Bill Barr, former US Attorney General in the Trump Administration.
“[F]rankly I don’t think you have enough people involved in being tough. No one gets in a fight in school anymore. I think that’s a problem.” Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan in recent podcast interview. OK, Gym, we all know what you are – talk your shit.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Max Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Saving Sanity
Going Back Home
From the 1998 Album (CD) Going Back Home
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Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 album Stickin’ To My Guns
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Think About It
Otis Redding from his lovers album The Immortal Otis Redding.
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Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
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Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Originally on his landmark 1971 album What’s Going On
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Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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Destination
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